Convention Girl (1935)

Convention Girl (1935)

„Convention Girl“ is a 1935 comedy film directed by Luther Reed. The screenplay by George Boyle and Max Lief is based on Boyle’s novel of the same name.

A cabaret hostess is broken-hearted because she loves a gambler who does not love her.
Among the regular conventioneers, „Babe“ LaVal is the most-in-demand „convention girl“ among the Atlantic City hostesses, plying their trade on the famed Steel Pier or in the vicinity of the Ritz-Carlton Terrace. She is especially favored by Atlantic City casino-owner Dan Higgins, and Ward Hollister, a Philadelphia soap manufacturer, who isn’t as squeaky clean as his product. She also has time to monitor the relationship between her weird-looking, tap-dancing nephew, Tommy LaVal, and sweet Daisy Miller who, may or may not, be pure as the driven snow. Tommy poses no threat to her purity.

Cast:

• Rose Hobart – Cynthia „Babe“ LaVal
• Weldon Heyburn – Bill Bradley
• Sally O’Neil – Gracie Ward
• Herbert Rawlinson – Ward Hollister
• Shemp Howard – Dan Higgins
• Rosa Castro – Peg Daley
• James Spottswood – John „Cupid“ Pettyjohn
• Nancy Kelly – Betty
• Alan Brooks – Ernest
• Nell O’Day – Daisy Miller
• Ruth Gillette – Helen Shalton
• William H. White – Penrod
• Laliva Browne – Mrs. Pettyjohn
• Toni Reed – Tommie La Val
• Isham Jones – Orchestra Leader
• Isham Jones’ Orchestra – Orchestra
• Ned Wayburn Dancing Girls – Dancers
• Woody Herman – Band Member